Download or read book Napoleon s British Visitors and Captives 1801 1815 written by John Goldworth Alger and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Napoleon s British Visitors and Captives 1801 1815 Classic Reprint written by John Goldworth Alger and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Napoleon's British Visitors and Captives, 1801-1815 The French Revolution, of which - philosophers regarding it as still unfinished - this book is really a chapter, produced a greater dislocation of individuals and classes than had been known in modern times. It scattered thousands of Frenchmen over Europe, some in fact as far as America and India, while, on the other hand, it attracted men of all nationalities to France. It was mainly a centrifugal, but it was partly a centripetal force, especially during the Empire; never before or since was France so much as then the focus of political and social life. Men of all ranks shared in both these movements. If princes and nobles were driven from France there were some who were attracted thither even in the early stages of the Revolution, while Napoleon later on drew around him a galaxy of foreign satellites. To begin with the centrifugal action, history furnishes no parallel to such an overturn of thrones and flight of monarchs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Napoleon s British Visitors and Captives 1801 1815 written by John Goldworth Alger and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Napoleon s British Visitors and Captives 1801 1815 written by John Goldworth Alger and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Napoleon Bonaparte written by Frank Giles and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My political life is over, and I proclaim my son Emperor of the French under the title of Napoleon II.' It was not to be. Napoleon's hopes, expressed in his declaration to the French people after his defeat at Waterloo, were vain. On 13 July 1815, after the great battle, Napoleon dictated his famous letter to the Prince Regent from a French frigate lying off Rochefort. Avoiding any hint of surrender, still less acceptance of responsibility for the defeat, he said he came 'like Themistocles to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British people - I put myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from Your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant and the most generous of my enemies.' Napoleon's idea of living peacefully in the English countryside was a pipedream. The island of St Helena, to which the Royal Navy brought him, was a desolate and unappealing home. The respect accorded to him by the officers and crew of the ship revealed, however, his sure touch with fighting men, and the magnetism he exerted even in defeat. Once in his 'prison' of Longwood, Napoleon came under the supervision of its Governor Sir Hudson Lowe. What really happened there? Was the fallen Emperor badly treated - perhaps even poisoned? Speculation has been rife for years. Lowe has been reviled by some historians, but looking afresh at the evidence Frank Giles portrays him, though unattractive in many ways, in a more favourable light. He gives a thought-provoking insight into British attitudes towards Napoleon in defeat, both at the time and in the writings of later literary figures.
Download or read book Napoleon s British Visitors and Captives 1801 1815 written by Alger John Goldworth and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St Helena written by Charles-Tristan comte de Montholon and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the captivity of Napoleon at St Helena written by William Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St Helena written by William Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St Helena written by Charles Jean François Tristan de MONTHOLON (Marquis de Montholon-Sémonville.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the captivity of Napoleon at St Helena from the letters and journals of sir Hudson Lowe and official documents not before made public written by William Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St Helena written by William Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Napoleon in Defeat and Captivity 1815 1821 written by Phil Carradice and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the fascinating, compelling and tragic tale of Napoleon Bonaparte from his defeat at Waterloo, through the period of his abdication in Paris to his capture by the British and, beyond, as he went, reluctantly, into exile. It focuses on the Emperor's time on the Bellerophon and Northumberland, the ships that carried him from France to England and St Helena. Napoleon's residence on St Helena is also explored in detail, using firsthand accounts from the people who saw and accompanied him for the six years of his exile. The book explores the slow decline of a great man into physical and mental disintegration, examining the causes of Napoleon's fatal malaise and his relationship with significant figures like Sir Hudson Lowe and Betsy Balcombe - putting everything into the context of enforced idleness on a distant and barren lump of rock.
Download or read book History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St Helena written by William Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
